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diff --git a/Documentation/power/runtime_pm.txt b/Documentation/power/runtime_pm.txt index 55b859b3bc72..9ba49b21ac86 100644 --- a/Documentation/power/runtime_pm.txt +++ b/Documentation/power/runtime_pm.txt @@ -1,6 +1,7 @@ Run-time Power Management Framework for I/O Devices (C) 2009 Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>, Novell Inc. +(C) 2010 Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> 1. Introduction @@ -230,6 +231,11 @@ defined in include/linux/pm.h: interface; it may only be modified with the help of the pm_runtime_allow() and pm_runtime_forbid() helper functions + unsigned int no_callbacks; + - indicates that the device does not use the run-time PM callbacks (see + Section 8); it may be modified only by the pm_runtime_no_callbacks() + helper function + All of the above fields are members of the 'power' member of 'struct device'. 4. Run-time PM Device Helper Functions @@ -349,6 +355,11 @@ drivers/base/power/runtime.c and include/linux/pm_runtime.h: counter (used by the /sys/devices/.../power/control interface to effectively prevent the device from being power managed at run time) + void pm_runtime_no_callbacks(struct device *dev); + - set the power.no_callbacks flag for the device and remove the run-time + PM attributes from /sys/devices/.../power (or prevent them from being + added when the device is registered) + It is safe to execute the following helper functions from interrupt context: pm_request_idle() @@ -524,3 +535,29 @@ poweroff and run-time suspend callback, and similarly for system resume, thaw, restore, and run-time resume, can achieve this with the help of the UNIVERSAL_DEV_PM_OPS macro defined in include/linux/pm.h (possibly setting its last argument to NULL). + +8. "No-Callback" Devices + +Some "devices" are only logical sub-devices of their parent and cannot be +power-managed on their own. (The prototype example is a USB interface. Entire +USB devices can go into low-power mode or send wake-up requests, but neither is +possible for individual interfaces.) The drivers for these devices have no +need of run-time PM callbacks; if the callbacks did exist, ->runtime_suspend() +and ->runtime_resume() would always return 0 without doing anything else and +->runtime_idle() would always call pm_runtime_suspend(). + +Subsystems can tell the PM core about these devices by calling +pm_runtime_no_callbacks(). This should be done after the device structure is +initialized and before it is registered (although after device registration is +also okay). The routine will set the device's power.no_callbacks flag and +prevent the non-debugging run-time PM sysfs attributes from being created. + +When power.no_callbacks is set, the PM core will not invoke the +->runtime_idle(), ->runtime_suspend(), or ->runtime_resume() callbacks. +Instead it will assume that suspends and resumes always succeed and that idle +devices should be suspended. + +As a consequence, the PM core will never directly inform the device's subsystem +or driver about run-time power changes. Instead, the driver for the device's +parent must take responsibility for telling the device's driver when the +parent's power state changes. |